. Romantic Germany. Innocents are so deliciousin their naivete and yet so touching that one chucklesas one looks at them through moist eyes. One of themost affecting and amusing of the reliefs showsChrist sitting with a group of cripples; for thechurch is supposed to have been founded by a groupof wealthy cripples who lived in the Kroppel-Strasseadjoining. The learned Doring, however, contendsthat this is Christ in the Temple disputing with thedoctors, whose spiritual infirmities are The bell-house of St. Andrews, though simplerthan that of St. Catherines or that of the c
. Romantic Germany. Innocents are so deliciousin their naivete and yet so touching that one chucklesas one looks at them through moist eyes. One of themost affecting and amusing of the reliefs showsChrist sitting with a group of cripples; for thechurch is supposed to have been founded by a groupof wealthy cripples who lived in the Kroppel-Strasseadjoining. The learned Doring, however, contendsthat this is Christ in the Temple disputing with thedoctors, whose spiritual infirmities are The bell-house of St. Andrews, though simplerthan that of St. Catherines or that of the cathedral,is almost as effective. There is a threefold beauty inthe conception of these lofty gables of stone lace-work. Tenderly they sound the citys dominant do-mestic theme, and embody the thought that the Ger-man art of music should have a separate architectonicexpression. For the burghers conceived that themusic of their chimes should be no mere adjunct tothe steeple, the function of which is not to contain 176. THE ALTL \. .lA 1 (JOKING TOWARD ST. ANDREWS BRUNSWICK bells, but to direct the eye of the soul toward also sound a note distinctly human, for theybreak the too abrupt idealism of the towers leapfrom cobbles to sky by interjecting, half-way up,something that means to the Teuton the most spirit-ual joy short of religious ecstasy, and yet a joy thathe may feel as keenly in a seance with his violin, be-neath the homely red tiles yonder, as when the organreverberates through the nave on Sunday morning. These medieval bell-houses were prophetic as well;for Brunswick was to have a musical history pecu-liarly honorable, as is shown to-day by the monu-ments to its two citizens, Abt and Spohr. Sometimes it is pleasant to punctuate this Old-World romance with a walk around the charmingpromenades or among the new villas beyond, or togo farther, to the Park of Richmond, the estate ofthe Duke of Cumberland, rightful heir to the prov-ince. But one always returns with
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